This is just a short guide to how I've gone about constructing the project entries. If you have any further questions or queries please contact me or click on DISCUSSION above
Name of Company
*the name of each company is its most recently registered name. In some cases this may not been the best known name of the company, and I'll look to index every name I find in order to minimise confusion in the final product. I will link to the online catalogue entry where possible*
Company Number:
Date of Incorporation:
Contact Details:
Operating Details:
Other names (if known):
Function of Company*:
Headquarters/Base of Operations Location:
Area of Operation:
*Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010
*Most of these details are taken from the Companies House website entry. However where appropriate I have added details about previous names, and location details from my own research. Very occassionally I have added to the 'Function of Company' entry if I feel that the current function doesn't reflect previous functions (eg in the case of a holding company that used to be a mining company)*
Records
Held By: *name of the institution that holds the records. If it is a registered archive I include the archive and collection number. If it is a registered collection with the NRAS or NRA I include that number. I will link to the holding body where possible*
Scope/type: * very brief notes on the collection, including the dates and the types of records held*
Conditions governing access/use: *notes on the conditions of access imposed by the holding body*
Related records: *notes on other collections that may have similar records, or records that directly relate to the company, or other parts of the wider company*
Company History
*Brief notes on the history of the company, taken from either the corporate history or from the archival descriptors of the collections. The aim is not to be comprehensive, but to give researchers an idea of where to begin to look and to untangle some of the problems that may exist about the name, dissolutions, discrepancies between dates etc. I will add any useful books or articles I have found dealing with the history*
*Underneath the company history is a note of acknowledgement of my sources. I will include an acknowledgement and thanks list at the end of the project, but currently this list is growing daily!*
Guide to the project entry template
This is just a short guide to how I've gone about constructing the project entries. If you have any further questions or queries please contact me or click on DISCUSSION above
Name of Company
*the name of each company is its most recently registered name. In some cases this may not been the best known name of the company, and I'll look to index every name I find in order to minimise confusion in the final product. I will link to the online catalogue entry where possible*
Company Number:
Date of Incorporation:
Contact Details:
Operating Details:
Other names (if known):
Function of Company*:
Headquarters/Base of Operations Location:
Area of Operation:
*Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010
*Most of these details are taken from the Companies House website entry. However where appropriate I have added details about previous names, and location details from my own research. Very occassionally I have added to the 'Function of Company' entry if I feel that the current function doesn't reflect previous functions (eg in the case of a holding company that used to be a mining company)*
Records
Held By: *name of the institution that holds the records. If it is a registered archive I include the archive and collection number. If it is a registered collection with the NRAS or NRA I include that number. I will link to the holding body where possible*
Scope/type: * very brief notes on the collection, including the dates and the types of records held*
Conditions governing access/use: *notes on the conditions of access imposed by the holding body*
Related records: *notes on other collections that may have similar records, or records that directly relate to the company, or other parts of the wider company*
Company History
*Brief notes on the history of the company, taken from either the corporate history or from the archival descriptors of the collections. The aim is not to be comprehensive, but to give researchers an idea of where to begin to look and to untangle some of the problems that may exist about the name, dissolutions, discrepancies between dates etc. I will add any useful books or articles I have found dealing with the history*
*Underneath the company history is a note of acknowledgement of my sources. I will include an acknowledgement and thanks list at the end of the project, but currently this list is growing daily!*